I am fed up with lies and abhorrent threats from the National Rifle Association. Guns are worse than a knife. Car attacks are rare, like the Charlottesville incident. Mass shootings are not rare, and are a national nightmare because Congress is not acting responsibly by getting the unnecessary guns. Guns don’t prevent gun violence. Not having them does.

I don’t want out-of-state laws to infiltrate New Jersey. (Why? Not because we have our own laws, but because I am going to go out of my way to help make their laws like ours now).

I don’t want automatic or semiautomatic guns legal.

I do want better background checks, so I don’t have to worry about my family going to outdoor festivities being mangled in blood by people who snap.

I want an honest conversation and a bill on the floor to stop this madness.